This song was written to entice people to shop and visit downtown Boise. The song highlights new construction and improved safety. Dion wrote and preformed many songs like this on a cassette tape titled "Idaho Zone."

Boise Junior college students today launched a “keep-out-of-war” movement. Chairman Gene Frazier, BJC student, said Secretary of State George H. Curtis will speak before a student body assembly next Wednesday on a peace program. Young Frazier said...

The process of building a mall became a popular topic in Boise in the mid-1980's. To commemorate the first day of construction of the Boise Town Square Mall, the KIVS-FM radio station requested J.J. Dion write and sing parody songs about the mall....

The city of Boise's geographic location and city population traditionally restricted some national chain or franchised stores from opening in the valley. In the mid-1980s, J.J. Dion was asked to sing "an anthem to lure this fashionable shoppers'...

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An Urban Renewal Plan for the Boise Central District Redevelopment Project in the City of Boise, and consists of the Text, the Description of the Project Area Boundaries, the Project Area and Land Use Map, the Description of the Properties within...